Vehicle wheel



I July 14, 1936. c w SNCLMR 2,047,895

VEHI CLE WHEEL Filed Aug. 17, 19 51 Aux I INVENTOR fi Cha rieslVJ/ncZa/r:

E .2 ATTORNEY Patented July 14, 1936 Ghanles' W;

Wh of. Delaware.

Application August-= 17;

, vErncLn WHEEL Sinclair,. Detroit; Mich assignor, by: mesne; assignments,

to; The Kelsey-Hayes.

eel Company, Detroit; Mich.-, a corporation 1931', SerialiNo; 557*;714

The invention relates to wheels and refers more particularly to wheels for use with motor vehicles. One of the objects of the invention is to provide an improved construction of mounting a wheel body upon an inner hub. Another object is to so make the construction that different wheel bodies, such as wood spoked, sheet metal ther object is to so construct the wire spoked and sheet metal spoked wheel bodies that they have outer hubs which are substantially alike.

These and other objects of the invention will become apparent from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a wheel showing another embodiment of my invention;

Figure 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2, showing another embodiment of my inventio The embodiment of the invention featured in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a hollow sheet metal spoked wheel body which is adapted to be mounted upon the inner hub 22 having a barrel [3 over 1 which the wheel body is sleeved and having a radially extending flange M. This flange is provided intermediate its edges with the axially extending pockets or recesses l5 and the web of the brake drum 23 is apertured opposite the pockets. In detail, the wheel body has the outer hub member formed of the front and rear secto which are secured the front and rear sections 32 and 32', respectively, of the sheet metal hollow spokes. These front and rear sections are fixedly secured together by suitable means, such as welding. The radially extending flange 30 of pockets l5 provided in the radially extending hub flange M. The radially extending flange 28 of the front section is resilient andfor ms the outwardly and forwardly clined annular face 35 for engagement with the rel of the inner hub in the manner clearly shown in Figure 2. 5 In this construction, the rim member is secured to the spokes by the caps 34 which are located at the outer tion of mounting rear enlarged portions and crimped over their ends, the closure member being apertured for the passage of the spokes. 1

From the above description, it will be readily seen that I have provided an improved construca'wheel body upon an inner hub and one in which the inner hub is adapted to interchangeably receive different types of wheel bodies. Itwill also be seen that'I have so constructed sheet metal spoked and wire spoked bodies that they have substantially the same outer hubs. v

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a wheel, the combination with an inner hub member, of an outer hub'member having front and rear sections encircling the inner'hub member and each'section formed. with axially extending telescopically engaging secured to each other, outwardly extending flanges integrally connected to the extremities of the tubular portions and having at the outerrends tubular portions thereof axially ext vided at the extremities with radially extending flanges, spokes having the inner ends secured to the flexible portions, and means for concealing the telescopically engaging tubular portions aforesaid of the outer hub member together with V the connection therebetween comprising a closure member engaging the axially extending flexible portions and crimped the latter portions. 7 V

In a wheel, the combination with an inner hub, of an outer hub member encircling the inner huband having spoke engaging portions at opover the radial' flanges' on r r 10- r nding flexible portions proposite ends of greater diameter than the inter- 'mediate'portion'of the outer hub member and terminating in radially extending flanges, and an enclosure for'the outer hub seated upon the spoke engaging portions and having the opposite. ends crimped around the marginal edges of said radially extending flanges.

a v CHARLES W.:$INCLAIR. 

